The Skeptic Metaphysicians | A Pragmatic Guide to Spiritual Awakening, Metaphysics & Consciousness

What if everything you've been doing in the name of spiritual growth is actually just... marketing? The meditation apps, the retreats, the affirmations. What if the real thing looks nothing like any of that?

That's the question Shaman Abhay Oyun walked into our studio with. He's a Siberian shamanic elder with 35 years of practice, 40 countries, and a lineage stretching back 40,000 years. He predicted the Ukraine invasion before it happened. He performed ceremonies for 2,500 people at the base of Mount Fuji. And he doesn't speak a word of English. This conversation happened through an interpreter.

Don't let that throw you. What came through was worth every pause.

In this episode, Will and Karen sit down with Shaman Abhay Oyun to explore:
Why he calls most modern spirituality "awakening marketing," and what real awakening actually requires
The Sixth Race. what it means to become an angel while still living on Earth, and why he believes this evolution is already happening
How shamanism actually works, no Bible, no doctrine, just direct contact with the powers that have the answers
Why your energy is draining and what to do about it tonight
The one thing a 40,000-year-old tradition says modern people are completely missing
Two sisters on heavy medication whose eyes literally changed after 25 sessions of simply sitting and breathing good vibration
How a Siberian shaman from his lineage once protected an entire village from a wildfire while everything around it burned to the ground
Why humor might be the most underrated energy practice on the planet
Plus: Abhay explains the difference between Siberian shamanism and every other tradition using a duck in Paris, a duck in Ukraine, and a duck in America. And he nearly drives to Norfolk on the spot.

This one got us. We think it'll get you too.

Connect with Shaman Abhay Oyun
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@master_of_energy
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abhayoyun/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/abhayoyun0

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomenon, quantum healing, and beyond.

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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Ever been absolutely certain about something; a movie line, a cartoon character's outfit, a historical event, only to find out the whole world remembers it differently? That unsettling feeling has a name. It's called the Mandela effect, and it might be more than a memory glitch. 

Will opens with his own real-time reality shift. A boarding pass seat number that changed right in front of his eyes mid-flight, no explanation, no logical fix. Then he and Karen bring in Cynthia Sue Larson, a UC Berkeley-trained physicist, bestselling author of "Reality Shifts" and "Quantum Jumps," and founder of RealityShifters, to make sense of it.
 
Cynthia walks through where the term Mandela effect actually came from, Nelson Mandela's death that never happened, Art Bell's flooded phone lines on Coast to Coast AM, and why she pushed back on naming the phenomenon after him. From there, the conversation goes deep into quantum physics theories, including QBism and "Wigner bubbles," each offering a different explanation for why groups of people can swear they remember the same event happening two different ways.
 
It's a conversation that walks the line between hard science and mind-bending possibility, exactly the kind of topic that makes a skeptic start questioning what "real" even means.

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomenon, quantum healing, and beyond.

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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What if dying is actually a skill? And what if most of us are completely unprepared for the one experience that is absolutely guaranteed to happen?
 
This week we sit down with Darnella Ford, award-winning author, trauma facilitator, and restorative guide, whose twenty-year journey into the non-physical began not with a spiritual calling, but with a breakup, a depression she couldn't shake, and a night of breathwork that sent her flying through a black void at incalculable speed.
 
What followed changed everything she thought she knew about life, death, consciousness, and what is waiting on the other side of that final breath.
 
In this episode we explore:
Why dying requires a specific kind of surrender, and why practicing it while you're still alive might be the most important thing you ever do
What actually happens to your consciousness the moment you leave your body
Whether your deceased loved ones are still around, still aware, and what they are doing right now
Why the death experience is completely customized to your own belief system
How the life review works, and why it dissolves the illusion of separation once and for all
Why the question isn't how to get out of the body, but how to actually be in it
The one thing Darnella wants you to do tomorrow morning before you reach for your phone
Plus, Darnella shares the devastating personal loss that became the beating heart of her latest book, and the question she spent four years answering because of it.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE Darnella Ford
Website and private sessions: https://www.journeytoworthy.org/

Darnella's Book
The Next Breath: Life After Loss and Journeys Into the Hereafter
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKWRNFKH

Books Referenced in the Conversation
Life After Life by Raymond Moody
The landmark book that introduced near-death experiences to mainstream awareness. Still the starting point for anyone new to the subject.

Journeys Out of the Body by Robert Monroe
Monroe's firsthand account of his out-of-body experiences, and the book that helped Darnella make sense of what was happening to her in 2006.

Adventures Beyond the Body by William Buhlman
Another foundational text Darnella turned to early in her journey, covering practical methods and experiences of out-of-body travel.
 
Practices and Modalities Mentioned
Holotropic Breathwork. The breathwork practice developed by Dr. Stanislav Grof that Darnella credits with opening the door to her first out-of-body experience. Practiced twice daily over several months before her initial experience.
 
Biomagnetic Healing. A remote energy healing modality Darnella uses in her private client sessions.

Ayahuasca. Darnella shared her experience with twenty ceremonies in the Amazon rainforest over seven years, working with a traditional shaman in Peru. She was transparent that this came thirteen years after her out-of-body experiences began, and has never produced an out-of-body experience for her personally.
 
Where to Study
Ramtha's School of Enlightenment (RSE), Yelm, Washington. Where Darnella studied Quantum Theory and Neuroscience from 2006 to 2009, and where her first out-of-body experience occurred. https://www.ramtha.com/
 
The Monroe Institute. Founded by Robert Monroe, this is one of the most established research and training centers for out-of-body exploration and consciousness studies. https://www.monroeinstitute.org/

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomenon, quantum healing, and beyond.

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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Will and Karen sit down with licensed hypnotherapist Cat Cazimi, co-host of Hippie Chicks Live, for a deep dive into what hypnosis really is, and whether it can fast-track you to spiritual awakening.
 
Cat breaks down the biggest myth about hypnosis: the idea that it's a sleep-like state where you lose control. In reality, she explains, hypnosis is a hyper-focused state of receptivity, not unconsciousness, and you can never be made to do or say anything you don't want to. She walks through the difference between a light trance (think scrolling your phone or watching a movie) and the deeper theta state used in therapeutic work, and shares how she works with the most resistant clients, from analytical "monkey minds" who overthink their way out of relaxing, to people who drift too far into sleep.
 
Karen and Will also revisit their own hypnosis sessions with Cat, including a moment that helped Karen finally get consistent sleep, and a lighter memory involving an impromptu "world-class pianist" suggestion.
 
The conversation turns philosophical when Will asks Cat directly: is hypnotherapy a shortcut to enlightenment? Her answer redraws the line entirely, arguing that hypnotherapy ends and self-enlightenment begins the moment you're finally willing to meet yourself.
 
Also in this episode: a listener voicemail from Toronto on the healing power of screaming into the void (walk-in freezers and airport parking lots included), a five-star review from a listener in Portugal, and a live audience Q&A covering who can and can't be hypnotized.
 
Guest: Cat Cazimi, Licensed Hypnotherapist, co-host of Hippie Chicks Live
Book a session: https://hypnohelpsyou.com/

The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomenon, quantum healing, and beyond.

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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What actually happens after we die? Not the comforting version. Not the tunnel and the light and the everything-is-fine. The specific, structured, verifiable version…mapped in detail by someone who has spent more than 20 years studying the invisible architecture of the soul.
 
In this episode Will and Karen sit down with internationally recognized intuitive healer and bestselling author Inna Segal to explore one of the most profound and underexplored questions in all of spirituality: what the soul experiences between death and rebirth, and why understanding that journey might be the most important thing you can do while you are still alive.
 
Inna draws from her own direct experiences, including witnessing her grandmother's passing in real time and observing the etheric body leave the physical form, and from more than two decades of deep study in the work of Rudolf Steiner and the Anthroposophical tradition. The result is one of the most rigorously structured conversations about the afterlife, soul evolution, and spiritual discernment you will find anywhere in the podcast space.

What You'll Learn in This Episode
What the soul actually moves through in the period immediately following physical death
The three-day separation process and the role of the etheric body in holding the physical form together
Why Rudolf Steiner's framework of subtle bodies — physical, etheric, astral, and ego — offers one of the most precise maps of human consciousness ever developed
What the seven-year communication window is, and why departed souls gradually shift from verbal to gestural contact with the living
How unresolved ancestral patterns, karma, and soul contracts shape both the life we live and the journey we take after it ends
Why the soul of someone who dies by suicide enters a fundamentally different state than one who transitions naturally — and what loved ones can do to help
How Inna's clairvoyant grandmother survived the Holocaust by trusting her own perception, and how that gift passed through the family line
The angelic encounter that predicted Inna's career in precise, testable detail — and the phone call that arrived the same evening to confirm it
Why Inna believes the new age industry has dangerously oversimplified the spiritual journey, and what a more honest framework looks like
How Rudolf Steiner's predictions, made over 100 years ago, have been verified by modern discoveries in medicine, farming, and human development

Find Inna:Website: innasegal.com
Instagram: @innasegalauthor
Facebook: InnaSegalAuthor
YouTube: @InnaSegalauthor

Key Topics & Timestamps
[00:00] Pre-open teaser: The soul's journey between death and rebirth
[01:00] Will and Karen intro: The show where the woo meets the "wait, really though?"
[02:00] Inna's guest introduction and her million-copy bestselling background
[03:00] The stillbirth at 22: Inna's first angelic encounter and the promise of two children
[07:00] Healing her own body at 20: direct communication with her physical form and the discovery of her clairvoyant ability
[11:00] The second angelic encounter at 25: a career prediction that made no logical sense
[15:00] The phone call from Woman's Day magazine that arrived the same evening
[19:00] The years of traveling, teaching, and writing The Secret Language of Your Body
[21:00] Hitting the spiritual ceiling: why established new age teachings started to feel stale
[25:00] Discovering Rudolf Steiner: the German lady who said "everything you think you know is wrong"
[27:00] How much of Steiner does Inna take literally? Her honest answer
[28:00] What old clairvoyance is, why it turns on you without proper development, and how Steiner's exercises changed her from within
[32:00] The sun, the moon, and spiritual intelligences: how Inna made peace with Steiner's most challenging ideas
[39:00] How her own experiences and Steiner's cosmology intersect — including seeing into bodies, receiving messages from the departed, and astrology as a living system
[40:00] Her grandmother's passing: what Inna witnessed in real time as the etheric body left the physical form
[44:00] The three-day separation process, the cord between soul and body, and how Rudolf Steiner's model maps exactly to what Inna observed
[50:00] The seven-year communication window: how her grandmother stayed in contact, and when and why it shifted
[51:00] What happens to souls who die by suicide — and what those left behind can do
[53:00] Astrology as evidence that the cosmos is alive: how Steiner's framework answered a question Inna had carried for years
[54:00] Where to find Inna's work, masterclasses, and courses

Resources & Links Mentioned
Understanding Modern Spirituality by Inna Segal — innasegal.com
The Secret Language of Your Body by Inna Segal
Theosophy by Rudolf Steiner
The Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland — Rudolf Steiner's architectural and philosophical headquarters
Family Constellations as a healing modality
Biodynamic farming as developed through Rudolf Steiner's agricultural work
Anthroposophy — Rudolf Steiner's path of spiritual science

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The Skeptic Metaphysicians is a spiritual awakening podcast for open-minded thinkers who refuse to check their critical thinking at the door. Each episode explores consciousness expansion, enlightenment, soul purpose, and soul growth through honest, grounded conversation with leading voices in metaphysics, psychic phenomenon, quantum healing, and beyond.

We dive deep into spiritual awakening, ascension, alignment, and the awakening process without the dogma. From mediumship and spirit guides to Arcturian contact, astrology, and the subconscious mind, we explore it all with curiosity, humor, and zero guru worship.

Whether you're in the middle of your own awakening, questioning reality, or just spiritually curious, this is the podcast for seekers and skeptics alike.

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